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Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, Reuters obtained and analyzed a dataset of drug seizures by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at ports of entry along the U.S ...
The initial focus of the Center was to assist in the identification of drug traffickers and alien traffickers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The current EPIC facility was dedicated on 22 February 1989 in memory of DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena-Salazar who was slain in the line of duty while conducting an undercover operation in Mexico. [2]
Fifty-six scanners that can detect fentanyl in cars at border crossings will be installed due to $200 million in federal funds approved after an NBC News report.
In the United States, border security includes the protection of ports, airports, and the country's 3,017-mile (4,855 km) land border with Canada and 1,933-mile (3,111 km) border with Mexico. Central to U.S. national security , border security incorporates responses to issues such as terrorism , illegal immigration, smuggling , and human ...
By 1999 there were 472 Drug Courts in the nation and by 2005 that number had increased to 1262 with another 575 Drug Courts in the planning stages; currently, all 50 states have working Drug Courts. There are currently about 120,000 people treated annually in Drug Courts, though an estimated 1.5 million eligible people are currently before the ...
The U.S. has spent millions on high-tech scanners to spot fentanyl crossing the border, but many sit in warehouses unused because Congress hasn’t appropriated funds to install them.
As of September 30, 2015, 183 illicit cross-border tunnels have been discovered in the United States since Fiscal Year 1990. [6] On January 25, 2006, a tunnel was found on the US-Mexico border by a joint US Drug Enforcement Administration, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and US Border Patrol task force. The 2,400-foot (730 m) long ...
The job scheme is a long-standing tactic of Mexican drug cartels to recruit "mules" among border commuters to carry drugs over the international bridges, U.S. law enforcement officials said.